Question of the week 35: Inspire

Hi and welcome to this week’s question of the week! This week the word inspire will be covered in the following question:

How do you inspire someone?

The word inspire is used to describe a person, a thing or an environment that influences a person’s thinking or work. It is used in plays, books, and movies, all of which are inspired by events, but can also be amongst people. For instance, the movie Black Hawk Down was inspired by events that occurred in Somalia in 1993. The granting of a terminally ill boy’s wish was the inspiration for setting up the Make-A-Wish Foundation that now caters globally to terminally ill children. Winston Churchill inspired many people to continue fighting in World War 2 despite the horrid conditions.

Inspiring a person is thus by influencing a person into doing an action or thinking in a particular way, which results in the creation of something new. However, to actually inspire someone takes doing something special. Here are some ways of inspiring a person:

• Sharing experiences of difficult circumstances (rappers tend to do this, showing their harsh upbringings and how they worked hard to achieve their success) 

• Being successful or an expert at a particular subject (engineers inspire each other by making mega structures such as the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates) 

• Saving a person from injury, from failure, or from depression, just to name a few (Police negotiators stopping a criminal and then persuading them to change their lifestyle and start clean)

In short: To inspire someone is to influence that person in such a way that it improves that person. Inspiration can come from people, from the environment, or from an object. Inspiring someone can come from the sharing of difficult experiences, being successful at a particular subject, or saving a person from harm or helping him or her succeed in something.

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